Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious seventh planet ...

Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...

It's been a while since Uranus was probed up close, but old data is proving to be quite valuable in solving a few decades old oddities. The last spacecraft that flew by Uranus was NASA’s Voyager 2 in ...

On April 7, 2025, NASA scientists seized a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere during a stellar occultation, when the planet passed between Earth and a star 400 light years away. This cosmic ...

Do the moons of Uranus have interior liquid oceans like the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a pair of researchers ...

While it does have somewhat of an awkward name, Uranus has actually been called the boring planet, and at first glance, it does look rather calm and yes, even boring, but underneath its placid blue ...

However, this takes a lot of observations because, like Earth, the Uranian magnetic poles tend to drift. The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, ...

It's unlikely you'll be able to walk outside and see a line of planets, but according to NASA, a seven-planet parade ...